Jared spoke with The Big Issue he was weighing up some rather unusual career options. The 30 Seconds To Mars frontman says: “I was at a crossroads in life when I was 16. I didn’t know I was going to be an actor. I thought I might be an artist or a painter. Or maybe a drug dealer.”

But rather than blaming his drug problems on the boogie Leto claims it was fame that saved him from a life of crime. “I didn’t know which path I would take. It’s just fortunate that I chose one over the other.”

Leto went on, “If I met the teenage Jared now the first thing I’d notice would probably be that my wallet was missing. He had a pretty tough exterior, it would be hard to crack. I was in trouble quite a bit with the authorities, any person who made rules or the law.”

I’m pretty happy with adult Jared, so I’d say that things turned out pretty good for him. Check out the photos of the fashionably dressed Jared Leto for Bullett magazine by launching the gallery.

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